Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:47:39 +0000 From: Andrew Humphries <humphie@ucip.boyko.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Two questions: WLAN and FBSD Bootloader Message-ID: <1067384858.11752.21.camel@revelation.home.net>
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Okay, pardon me for doing this folks but rather than have two separate e-mails I figured I might as well place both points in here that I am having trouble with. 1. I run FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop, very nicely I might add. Its on my home network via 802.11b with the router utilising DHCP. Unfortunately, I have to manually control the wireless device every time I boot up and login so that it comes back onto the network, I assume this is because I am doing something wrong that doesn't allow for DHCP. In my rc.conf I have the line: ifconfig_wi0="ssid WLAN" This works fine, on boot it is clearly scanning on that WLAN but it just isn't locking onto channel 11 and associating, as it should. So everytime I login I have to type dhclient wi0. Now, I've tried to add something along these lines into the rc.conf, such as: dhclient="wi0" and dhclient_wi0="YES But to no avail. Can anyone point me to where I am going wrong and perhaps show me the light? 2. My second problem, which isn't really a great problem (more of a vanity thing really), is with the FreeBSD boot loader. On boot the loader looks like this: F1 ??? F2 FreeBSD Default: F2 Now thats all fine and dandy, except the other OS on my hard drive is Windows XP Professional. How do I alter the boot loader to reflect F1 as being WinXP? I've read the man-page for boot0cfg and it doesn't appear to offer what I need, moreover I see no point in fiddling with the existing configuration of the slices. As I said, its mainly vanity. I hope that someone will be able to answer my questions, many thanks in advance, Regards, -- Andrew Humphries <humphie@ucip.boyko.org>
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